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Surveys and Books

The following is a list of survey papers and books on aspects related to robot execution monitoring, failure diagnosis, and failure recovery.

Surveys

  1. J. Cação, J. Santos, and M. Antunes, “Explainable AI for industrial fault diagnosis: A systematic review,” Journal of Industrial Information Integration, vol. 47, pp. 100905:1-27, Sept. 2025. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2025.100905
  2. D. Liu, C. Li, J. Zhang, and W. Huang, “Robot service failure and recovery: Literature review and future directions,” International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 20, no. 4, 2023. Available: https://doi.org/10.1177/17298806231191606
  3. L. Zhou and P. Tokekar, “Multi-robot Coordination and Planning in Uncertain and Adversarial Environments,” Current Robotics Reports, vol. 2, pp. 147-157, June 2021. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43154-021-00046-5
  4. Z. R. Khavas, S. R. Ahmadzadeh, and P. Robinette, “Modeling Trust in Human-Robot Interaction: A Survey,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2020, pp. 529-541. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_44
  5. E. Khalastchi and M. Kalech, “Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Multi-Robot Systems: A Survey,” Sensors, vol. 19, no. 18, pp. 4019:1-19, Sept. 2019. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/s19184019
  6. S. Honig and T. Oron-Gilad, “Understanding and Resolving Failures in Human-Robot Interaction: Literature Review and Model Development”, Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 9, 2018. Available: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00861
  7. E. Khalastchi and M. Kalech, “On Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Robotic Systems,” ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 1-24, Jan. 2018. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3146389
  8. T. Zhang, W. Zhang, and M. M. Gupta, “Resilient Robots: Concept, Review, and Future Directions,” Robotics, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 22:1-14, Sept. 2017. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics6040022
  9. H. Alemzadeh, J. Raman, N. Leveson, Z. Kalbarczyk, and R. K. Iyer, “Adverse Events in Robotic Surgery: A Retrospective Study of 14 Years of FDA Data,” PLOS One, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. e0151470:1-20, Apr. 2016. Available: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151470
  10. G. Steinbauer, “A Survey about Faults of Robots Used in RoboCup,” in RoboCup 2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI, Lecture Notes Computer Science, vol. 7500, pp. 344-355, 2013. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39250-4_31
  11. D. Kaushik, R. High, C. J. Clark, and C. A. LaGrange, “Malfunction of the da Vinci Robotic System During Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy: An International Survey,” Journal of Endourology, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 571-575, Apr. 2010. Available: https://doi.org/10.1089/end.2009.0489
  12. W. T. Kim, W. S. Ham, W. Jeong, H. J. Song, K. H. Rha, and Y. D. Choi “Failure and Malfunction of da Vinci Surgical Systems During Various Robotic Surgeries: Experience From Six Departments at a Single Institute,” Urology, vol. 74, no. 6, pp. 1234-1237, Dec. 2009. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2009.05.071
  13. H. J. Lavery, R. Thaly, D. Albala, T. Ahlering, A. Shalhav, D. Lee, R. Fagin, P. Wiklund, P. Dasgupta, A. J. Costello, A. Tewari, G. Coughlin, and V. R. Patel, “Robotic Equipment Malfunction During Robotic Prostatectomy: A Multi-institutional Study,” Journal of Endourology, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 2165-2168, Sept. 2008. Available: https://doi.org/10.1089/end.2007.0407
  14. S. Andonian, Z. Okeke, D. A. Okeke, A. Rastinehad, B. A. Vanderbrink, L. Richstone, and B. R. Lee, “Device failures associated with patient injuries during robot-assisted laparoscopic surgeries: a comprehensive review of FDA MAUDE database,” The Canadian Journal of Urology, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 3912-3916, Feb. 2008. Available: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18304403/
  15. R. Alami, A. Albu-Schaeffer, A. Bicchi, R. Bischoff, R. Chatila, and A. De Luca, “Safe and dependable physical human-robot interaction in anthropic domains: State of the art and challenges,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2006, pp. 1-16. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2006.6936985
  16. O. Pettersson, “Execution monitoring in robotics: A survey,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 73-88, 2005. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2005.09.004
  17. J. Carlson and R. R. Murphy, “How UGVs physically fail in the field,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 423-437, June 2005. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2004.838027
  18. M. Luo, D. Wang, M. Pham, C. B. Low, J. B. Zhang, and D. H. Zhang, “Model-based fault diagnosis/prognosis for wheeled mobile robots: a review,” in 31st Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), 2005. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2005.1569256
  19. D. Zhuo-hua, C. Zi-xing, and Y. Jin-xia, “Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control for Wheeled Mobile Robots under Unknown Environments: A Survey,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2005, pp. 3428-3433. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570640
  20. J. Carlson, R. R. Murphy, and A. Nelson, “Follow-up analysis of mobile robot failures,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2004, pp. 4987-4994, vol.5. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2004.1302508
  21. J. Carlson and R. R. Murphy, “Reliability analysis of mobile robots,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2003, pp. 274-281, vol. 1. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1241608
  22. B. S. Dhillon, “Robot Safety Analysis Methods,” in Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Machines and Mechanics, 2003, pp. 86-93. Available: https://nacomm03.ammindia.org/Articles/Rob002.pdf
  23. M. L. Visinsky, J. R. Cavallaro, and I. D. Walker, “Robotic fault detection and fault tolerance: A survey,” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 139-158, 1994. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/0951-8320(94)90132-5
  24. B. S. Dhillon, “On robot reliability and safety - bibliography,” Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 105-118, 1987. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/0026-2714(87)90625-1

Books and Book Chapters

  1. D. J. Brooks, D. J. Curtin, J. T. Kuczynski, J. J. Rodriguez, A. Steinfeld, and H. A. Yanco, “A communication paradigm for human-robot interaction during robot failure scenarios,” in Human-Machine Shared Contexts. Academic Press, 2020, ch. 14, pp. 277-306. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820543-3.00014-6
  2. M. Blanke, M. Kinnaert, J. Lunze, and M. Staroswiecki, “Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control,” 3rd ed., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, 2016. Available: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-47943-8
  3. L. E. Parker, “Reliability and Fault Tolerance in Collective Robot Systems,” in Handbook of Collective Robotics. Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2013, ch. 6. Available: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/b14908-9/reliability-fault-tolerance-collective-robot-systems-lynne-parker
  4. R. Isermann, “Fault-Diagnosis Systems: An Introduction from Fault Detection to Fault Tolerance,” Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, 2006. Available: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/3-540-30368-5